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Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are an important community-based resource for veterans as they readjust to civilian life. Through interviews with both national-level and smaller, local FBOs, the authors sought to understand better the current and potential roles for FBOs in veteran reintegration. Interviewees suggested that veterans may look to FBOs for support because they offer privacy and confidentiality, two features that may be especially critical when a potential stigma is involved. Some FBOs have also developed a reputation as safe places for veterans, providing supportive, judgment-free environments. FBOs not only help veterans with spiritual matters but address diverse areas of veteran health and wellness, including vocation, education, financial and legal stability, shelter, access to goods and services, mental health, access to health care, physical health, family, and social networks. In some cases, the support is offered to veterans directly; in other instances, the support is indirect, via training individuals to help veterans or educating the public about them. In the process of providing support, FBOs interact with varied organizations, including government entities, private nonprofits, and one another, for training, outreach, referrals, information exchange, obtaining donations, and collaboration. Yet challenges exist, including insufficient connections with chaplains working in different settings and others in the web of support, resource and capacity constraints, lack of awareness of experience with veterans, issues related to religious philosophy or orientation, and characteristics of veterans themselves. To move forward, the authors offer recommendations for policymakers, organizations that interact with FBOs, and FBOs themselves to help FBOs engage fully in the web of reintegration support.

Veteran reintegration --- Veterans --- Religious institutions --- Services for --- Community reintegration, Veteran --- Post-deployment reintegration --- Reintegration, Veteran --- Veteran-community reintegration --- Resocialization --- Reintegration

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The feeling of grief and other emotions victims of a crime may face are not limited to certain stages in the criminal proceeding and do not necessarily end with conviction and imprisonment of the offender. Disregarding the needs of the victim, the German penal system generally focuses only on offenders and the need to reintegrate them into society. By implementing laws concerning restorative justice programs in the prison system the German legislator seeks to dissolve this apparent contradiction. During this international conference both practitioners and scholars depicted existing restorative justice programs and outlined their legal framework. It became apparent that the reintegration of criminal offenders and additional considerations of victim interests do not necessarily exclude each other but, to the contrary, may even complement one another. Das Leid und die Bedürfnisse von Kriminalitätstopfern lassen sich nicht in Verfahrensstadien greifen. Sie sind oft auch noch nach einer Verurteilung des Täters und einem damit verbundenen Freiheitsentzug präsent. Demgegenüber ist der Justizvollzug klassischerweise an Tätern und deren Resozialisierungsbedarf ausgerichtet. Diesen scheinbaren Widerspruch möchte eine Opferorientierung im Justizvollzugsziel ausräumen. Auf der internationalen Tagung wurden einerseits Projekte aus der Praxis vorgestellt, andererseits der theoretische Kontext wissenschaftlich aufbereitet. Es wurde deutlich, dass die am Täter ausgerichtete Resozialisierung und der Einbezug von Opferinteressen kein Widerspruch sein müssen, sondern sogar gegenseitig verstärkend wirken können.

Law --- restorative justice program --- reintegration --- victim interests

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Veteran reintegration. --- Foreign enlistment. --- Terrorists --- Criminals --- Rehabilitation.

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Peace-building --- Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program.

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"Contemporary veterans belong to an exclusive American group. Celebrated by most of the country, they are nevertheless often poorly understood by the same people who applaud their service. Following the introduction of an all-volunteer force after the war in Vietnam, only a tiny fraction of Americans now join the armed services, making the contemporary soldier, and the veteran by extension, increasingly less representative of mainstream society. Veterans have come to comprise their own distinct tribe-modern praetorians, permanently set apart from society by what they have seen and experienced. In an engrossing narrative that considers the military, economic, political, and social developments affecting military service after Vietnam, Michael D. Gambone investigates how successive generations have intentionally shaped their identity as veterans. The New Praetorians also highlights the impact of their homecoming, the range of educational opportunities open to veterans, the health care challenges they face, and the unique experiences of minority and women veterans. This groundbreaking study illustrates an important and often neglected group that is key to our understanding of American social history and civil-military affairs"--

Sociology, Military --- Veteran reintegration --- Veterans --- History. --- Social conditions. --- United States.